“Swing around, boom boom boom!” Instructor Jenay Anolin’s voice echoes through the hollow studio. As bass-heavy music begins flowing through a large speaker six dancers mimic movements in front of a wall mirror. “Don’t lose your rhythm,” Anolin bellows. “That’s a part of hip-hop.”

Mix’d Ingrdnts, the Oakland-based all-female dance collective, is in charge of this Monday night hip-hop dance lesson at In the Groove dance studio on 14th Street. Tonight, Anolin directs the class while co-founder Samara Atkins looks on from a seat in the corner.

The two started the collective in 2010, after meeting two years earlier at an audition. Over the past three years, the company has grown from three dancers to 17, plus four in training. Though Atkins and Anolin will sometimes invite male choreographers or teachers to work with the group, the company is fundamentally for women. “We wanted to keep it all female to empower the women in the dance community to be a stronger unit,” Atkins said.

A festival flier inspired the name “Mix’d Ingrdnts”. “On the flier there was a tongue and it said ‘bitter, sour, sweet’,” Atkins explained. “The idea was to have these different things as ingredients that you would put into a mixing bowl, to create something amazing that the Bay Area hadn’t seen.”